Ubuntu Developers Still Thinking What To Do About Adobe Flash Support

[saiarcot895]

That said, I recently switched to Opera to get upstream Chromium (I'm not a big fan of Firefox) because of notification hangs in Chromium 34+ (after they dropped GTK -- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/i...tail?id=374247) and they actually ship both libpdf and pepper flash, both of which are missing if you only install Chromium rather than Chrome, so I'm not sure if they're doing it by some special agreement with Google or what, but it works great out of the box in their case.

I don't know about Flash, but the PDF engine Chrome uses has been made open-source and is included in Chromium's tarballs. However, it is compiled separately and must be explicitly enabled.

https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/

[Pajn]

Is it just me or is Flash becoming more prevalent in YT videos? It seemed like it got to a point where I could barely play any YT vids in Chromium (too lazy to link to Chrome's Flash plugin). Is this because of all the ads now?

I don't have flash installed and have never experienced any issues with YT.
Sometimes some stupid page requires it but never something that I could care enough about
to install it so I just close them.

[shmerl]

Shumway is good in theory but it just doesn't work for almost anything.

It's still heavy in development and didn't even implement many key features, so you can't expect it to work. I hope they'll be ready sometime in 2015 though.

[curaga]

It's still heavy in development and didn't even implement many key features, so you can't expect it to work. I hope they'll be ready sometime in 2015 though.

What Flash content do you expect to use in 2015?

[pandev92]

I need flash because porn need flash. this is most important than youtube videos

[My8th]

I need flash because porn need flash. this is most important than youtube videos

Pornhub doesn't need Flash, it uses HTML5 if Flash is disabled.

[pandev92]

Pornhub doesn't need Flash, it uses HTML5 if Flash is disabled.

xvideos,xhamster, hardsextube xD etc etc etc

[shmerl]

What Flash content do you expect to use in 2015?

A lot of sites still use video players with Flash. That's the only usage that I ever encounter. And ironically it's the hardest feature for Shumway to implement. So if that won't work - Shumway will be useless.

[My8th]

xvideos,xhamster, hardsextube xD etc etc etc

xhamster doesn't need Flash.

[tarceri]

Flash use on websites has been dropping very consistently over the past few years [1]. It will be good to see it finally gone for good.

[1] http://w3techs.com/technologies/deta...-flash/all/all